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I didn't really get into listening to music until I was around 8-9 years old, and then I started to listen to some of the music that my sister was listening too, like: Pantera, Nirvana, Hole, NIN, Oasis, Blur.
By the time I was 11-12, I ditched indie rock, and went full on hard rock/metal, and bits of grunge and alt rock. From the age of 16 to 20, I was a Maynard whore, and still love tool and APC now.
That was pretty much it until I was 17, then i discovered the sweet voice of Alison Krauss, and from then on I started to explore bluegrass/newgrass and alt. country music, like nickel creek, uncle tupelo, whiskeytown, whilst still listening to metal. I also started to listen too southern rock music. Also around 17-18, i started to check out more kind of goth-oriented stuff, but not actually turning into a goth, listening to Rasputina, sisters of mercy, and checking out darkwave music like switchblade symphony and collide.
In the last three years my interest in metal has diminished, well, in modern stuff anyways, which is bloody shite. My interest in alt country has grown, and I have started to check out folk music, like kate Rusby and Julie Fowlis. I have also begun to listen too singer/songwriter stuff as well, such as Regina Spektor (my wife-to-be), Fiona Apple, Ryan Adams, and Jenny Owen Youngs.
In the past year I have started to get into classical music as well, especially Bach. Somethings have also begun to return, like the urge to listen to hard rock and metal, and more indie-oriented stuff like Rilo Kiley and Sigur Ros. In fact at the very moment I am going through a whole Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis obsession. They are my artist/band of the year, methinks, just like Regina was last year, and Nickle Creek back in 2005.
Who knows where I'll go next. More folky? Back to the heavy? Hopefully not indie, as the majority of that is shite. All i know is that my musical pallete(sp?) is a lot richer than it was 6 years ago when I was 16.
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